Consumer Chief of the Month: Kate Carter, Deputy Attorney General, Kansas Attorney General’s Office

Kate Carter, deputy attorney general for the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, is Consumer Chief of the Month for February 2021.

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Federal Consumer Protection News and Other Items of Interest: February 2021

This article includes recent federal consumer protection news.

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Attorney General Consumer Protection News: February 2021

This article summarizes recent attorney general consumer protection news, including multistate and individual attorney general actions.

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How Scammers and Marketers Use Psychology to Persuade Consumers

In celebration of National Consumer Protection Week, the NAAG Consumer Protection Committee and NAGTRI Center for Consumer Protection will host a dialogue with experts in the field of consumer psychology and consumer advertising. They will discuss how consumers make decisions and how scammers and marketers use psychology to persuade consumers.   Dr. Dahr will focus…
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NAAG Supports Development of Prosecutorial Guidelines Focused on Promoting Journalist Safety

Recent unsettling events in the United States have reminded us that protecting journalists and safeguarding enshrined principles like freedom of the press and expression are paramount to the overall welfare of any society. Most recently, mobs that stormed the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 riots sought to target elected and other government officials but…

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Deposition Skills

This intensive, online advocacy course consists of on-demand lessons covering different aspects of depositions, followed by a live, two-day online session where participants will conduct and defend depositions based on a fictional case file. The on-demand lessons consist of videos, PowerPoint presentations, handouts, and next steps for participants to prepare for the live session. The…

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State AGs Utilize Consumer Protection Laws to Address Allegations of Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

When it was released on Aug. 14, 2018, a Pennsylvania grand jury report exposed decades of alleged clergy abuse and cover-ups by Roman Catholic bishops and other church leaders in six of Pennsylvania’s eight dioceses.1 The impact of this unprecedented and comprehensive report was immediate and extensive,2 and it continues to this day.3 Recently, the…

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Creating Motivation in a Remote World

Working from home has been a seamless transition for some and a challenging one for others. Distractions come easy around the house. Kids need attention, household chores must be completed, and working for an attorney general office is always demanding. As attorney general office managers, keeping your employees motivated in a remote world where anyone…

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States’ Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement Helps Implement CDC Strategies to Reduce Tobacco Use

The Centers for Disease Control recently published results from its 2020 National Health Interview Survey on the subject of “Tobacco Product Use Among Adults – United States, 2019.”1 The CDC summarized the survey’s findings as follows: “In 2019, approximately 20.8% of U.S. adults (50.6 million) currently used any tobacco product. Cigarettes were the most commonly…

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Challenge to the FTC’s Restitution Authority to be Heard by Supreme Court

Led by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, a bipartisan coalition of 30 attorneys general filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) right to obtain disgorgement and restitution for victims of deceptive practices in cases filed in U.S. district court under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act. The…

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